Sencha Classic green tea
The most popular of Japanese green teas.
This tea has a light and refreshing taste as well as a pleasant fragrance like young spring leaves.
It contains theanine which gives it an agreeable taste and possesses relaxing qualities. It produces a sensation of freshness and tonicity with vitamin C./p>
- How to prepare Sencha:
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1. Pour boiling water into the cups and let it cool down to the appropriate temperature:Between 70 and 80° C for superior quality sencha.
- 2. Put the tea in the teapot. For example, to make three cups, use the equivalent of two level tablespoons (around 6 g or 1/5 oz).
- 3. Pour the hot water at the right temperature (70 to 80° C ) into the teapot and wait for thirty to sixty-seconds for fukamushi sencha (deep-steamed), or two minutes for ordinary sencha.
- 4. Pour the liquid bit by bit into the pre-heated cups in such a way that the strength of the tea will be equal for each cup.
- 5. Empty all the liquid from the teapot.
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6. For the second infusion, use hotter water and let it steep for a shorter time.
